Silvio Marzolini, who died friday at the age of 79, left-back from Argentina in the stormy quarter-finals of the Wembley World Cup in 1966, when visiting captain Antonio Rattin expelled and a purpose from GeoffHurst sent England to a final of four. clash of the year. Portugal.
Blond, sublime and talented, Marzolini was selected as the most productive left-back of the tournament, culminating in a career abroad that lasted much of the decade.
His last came here when Argentina couldn’t make it to Mexico 70. Some of his first were at the 1962 World Cup in Chile, when Argentina was eliminated at the organization level after suffering a 3–1 loss to England.
This time there’s only one Charlton in England. Jack’s career abroad wouldn’t start for three years.
But Bobby’s younger brother is already one of the notable players of an English team that ended up wasting eventual champions, Brazil, in the quarter-finals.
Surprisingly, Marzolini and Bobby Charlton may even have members at the club on the other side of the Atlantic.
During the World Cup in Chile, Charlton won a detour from the Buenos Aires giants Boca Juniors.
He talked about his wife being pregnant with their first child and told him it wouldn’t be a problem.
Boca may have the child born in the British embassy, so that he can qualify to play for England.
Bobby Charlton didn’t have to leave Manchester United.
The biggest incentive to sign for Boca would have been monetary: it was a time when Argentina’s big clubs paid much higher wages than England’s players.
And this in turn explains why Silvio Marzolini is a legend of Boca. He had reached the top, in sporting and monetary terms, and with nothing to attract him, he played in Boca between 1960 and 1972.
He then returned to the club’s coach and was guilty of Diego Maradona’s brief but memorable and successful era in the early 1980s.
These days, of course, a with silvio Marzolini pedigree would be attracted to Europe at an early age.
Argentina’s current left-back Nicolas Tagliafico plays for Ajax in the Netherlands and has been connected on days with a signing for Chelsea and Manchester City.
Tagliafico does not have the same elegance as Marzolini. The left-back of the 1960s was more balanced. But there’s something about the old player in the new one.
Percentage of direct elegance. It’s more than a coincidence. Marchlini’s last draws in football with the ranks of Banfield youth club, in the great Buenos Aires.
One of the players who evolved was Nicolas Tagliafico, who paid tribute to him in his death last week.
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